Bottom line understanding, drunkards need not promote. Purpose, is the original medicinal comment of: “a little wine for your stomachs sake” to be also permitted or shunned in the common Christian experience? True, I have not come across a study aside from my own experience of quite a varied swath of evangelicals who are opposed in no uncertain terms, to even touching a drop of any alcohol whatsoever. Yet, this isn’t to say most of us don’t know why, as rampant alcoholism goes back to the beginning.
So, what is the thing to correct here but one of the two diverse teachings; exhaustive, or not? Is one of these the way which leads to godliness, or an imagined hype fomenting an un-warranted fear? Two of those I consider a guard against the un-warranted are, Colossians 2:20-22 and John 2:10, ,
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men?
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
Likely, several such like threads. Opinions, insights, texts welcome.
So, what is the thing to correct here but one of the two diverse teachings; exhaustive, or not? Is one of these the way which leads to godliness, or an imagined hype fomenting an un-warranted fear? Two of those I consider a guard against the un-warranted are, Colossians 2:20-22 and John 2:10, ,
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men?
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
Likely, several such like threads. Opinions, insights, texts welcome.